Gypsy Hill killings: Prolific criminal extradited, charged in Peninsula cold case from 1970s

Rodney Halbower in 1976

Halbower, 66, was transferred to San Mateo County from Oregon State Prison, where he was serving an unrelated attempted-murder sentence. He was charged Thursday with two counts of murder and special circumstance of murder during the course of a rape in the 1976 deaths of 17-year-old Paula Baxter, whose body was found in Millbrae, and Veronica Anne Cascio, 18, who was found dead in her native Pacifica.

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